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Poetry: Homesickness

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  by Linda Ann Nickerson

  ALMA MATER

  My daughter called me after class.
  She said she needs a boarding pass.
  Four hundred miles away from home,
  She thinks

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  by Gabriel Fin

  I miss seeing your cliffs
  painted smooth and red.
  I miss the smell of pine and cedar;
  and the nights so cold and almost dead.

  I

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  by Rolan Whitt

  I grew up around booze hounds
  But before I even reached the legal drinking age
  I took the leap and bound
  And headed off to college.

  When

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  by Patricia Jahrke

  No one understands

  The thoughts of home

  Longing for the things I love

  No one understands

  My mind wandering

  Missing

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  by Siobhan

  Homesick
  
  It sits there.
  Refusing to leave.
  The unwelcome guest to my emotional being.
  Dancing and swaying.
  Churning around.

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Poetry: Homesickness